Introduction / Shane Phelan -- 1. Critically Queer / Judith Butler -- 2. True or False: The Self in Radical Lesbian Feminist Theory / Cynthia Burack -- 3. Dichotomies and Displacement: Bisexuality in Queer Theory and Politics / Stacey Young -- 4. Lesbians and Mestizas: Appropriation and Equivalence / Shane Phelan -- 5. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Queer Translating / Angelia R. Wilson -- 6. The Centering of Right-Wing Extremism Through the Construction of an "Inclusionary" Homophobia and Racism / Anna Marie Smith -- 7. Community, Rights Talk, and the Communitarian Dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick / Gordon A. Babst -- 8. Essentialism and the Political Articulation of Identity / Gary Lehring -- 9. Intimacy and Equality: The Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage / Morris B. Kaplan -- 10. Politics, Practices, Publics: Identity and Queer Rights / Paisley Currah -- 11. Queer Problems/Straight Solutions: The Limits of a Politics of "Official Recognition" / Lisa Bower